"Let's go."
Wu Zhangkong led the six members of Class Zero to the Spirit Ascension Platform once again.
After completing their registration, the six entered the Spirit Ascension Platform.
This was the first time their group had been this complete.
Previously, the six had been randomly scattered throughout the Spirit Ascension Platform. Although they had encountered one another a few times, someone had always been missing.
Even having three people together had counted as good luck.
Jiang Xia having met up with Tang Wulin five times had already been an extremely unusual case.
This time, all six entered together and were transported to the same place. They exchanged glances, all feeling considerably safer.
Even Jiang Xia and Gu Yue breathed sighs of relief.
Honestly, although they were strong, repeated battles still wore them down.
Mental fatigue was also inevitable.
Having someone to stand guard while they recovered was naturally a good thing.
Especially with Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi present: once the two unleashed their complete Martial Soul Fusion Skill, they were practically invincible within this elementary Spirit Ascension Platform.
Calling them invincible was a little exaggerated, but not far off. At the very least, no one with three rings could take the Darkness Sky Dragon's Sky Dragon Claw head-on.
Even Wu Zhangkong, who had already cultivated to rank 69 and compressed his Soul Power back down to three rings, had been forced back and knocked off balance by the Darkness Sky Dragon's Sky Dragon Claw.
There was no second Wu Zhangkong in Eastsea City.
No three-ring Soul Master could withstand a single claw strike from the Darkness Sky Dragon.
"With all six of us together, we can pretty much sweep through the entire Spirit Ascension Platform," Jiang Xia said outright.
His voice brimmed with confidence.
It was not excessive arrogance, but confidence backed by ample reserves.
"Let's head straight into the depths."
They would reach the deepest point accessible within this elementary Spirit Ascension Platform, then move laterally.
They would search for hundred-year soul beasts to hunt.
If they encountered other teams along the way, they would attack outright and seize their spiritual power.
Jiang Xia felt no qualms about this.
Opening the Spirit Ascension Platform during its riot period and setting up such rules had been intended to encourage competition in the first place.
Every faction eyeing a spot in the riot-period Spirit Ascension Platform had already prepared themselves for their own people to be robbed when they competed for those entry tickets.
Of course, what they wanted more was for their own people to rob others.
Jiang Xia activated Spirit Detection immediately.
Then his Martial Soul spread.
Then he probed again.
Using his method of stepping on his right foot with his left, he swiftly extended his Spirit Detection range to its maximum.
After reaching the limit of the Spirit Detection range he could activate instantly, he extended it again by the maximum distance his Martial Soul could spread.
By stepping on his right foot with his left like this, he gathered information on the surrounding kilometer at the lowest possible Soul Power cost.
The price was half his Soul Power and more than half his spiritual power.
But it was all worth it.
After all, although Jiang Xia was important to their six-person team, his enhancement was not exactly necessary for hunting the soul beasts here.
What they needed to pursue now was efficiency.
Following the directions in Jiang Xia's memory, everyone rooted out the soul beasts hiding in the surrounding area, one after another.
They started with the soul beasts that were more numerous and older.
Gradually, they hunted down every soul beast in the area.
Jiang Xia contributed the most and took one-third of the spiritual power gains for himself.
The others divided the rest almost equally.
After one round of clearing, Jiang Xia had recovered much of his Soul Power and spiritual power, and he began searching again.
This time, he discovered a Man Faced Demon Spider.
Remembering how the group in the original story had used a Man Faced Demon Spider's poisonous silk to kill a large number of soul beasts, Jiang Xia suddenly had an idea.
He explained his plan to Gu Yue.
"Can you do it? Provoke the soul beasts within my Spirit Detection range into coming our way."
Gu Yue nodded.
But there was a trace of helplessness in her eyes.
She truly did not want to do this sort of work, luring large numbers of soul beasts to their deaths.
But remembering that this was only a virtual world, she breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, repeated visits to the Spirit Ascension Platform over the past six months had already eliminated her resistance to killing soul beasts within it.
Everyone headed to the Man Faced Demon Spider's territory and induced it to cover the surroundings with lethally poisonous silk before killing it.
Jiang Xia once again expanded Spirit Detection to its maximum, and at that moment, his Broken Dream Martial Soul also connected to the Spirit Ascension Platform's space.
Following the guidance of Jiang Xia's Broken Dream, Gu Yue mobilized elemental power to attack every soul beast within that range.
At the same time, she left clues pointing to the attacker-herself.
In barely half an hour, all the soul beasts had charged over and been poisoned to death by the lethally poisonous silk.
Everyone also reaped a huge amount of spiritual power.
Tang Wulin and the others were dumbfounded.
"Are we supposed to get a share of this?" Xie Xie asked with some hesitation.
This time, they really had not helped much.
Jiang Xia had gathered the information, and Gu Yue had lured the soul beasts.
The plan had been Jiang Xia's too.
If they had served any purpose, it had been helping kill the Man Faced Demon Spider.
But even that help had not amounted to much.
"Let's all take a share." Jiang Xia did not particularly care about this.
Every Soul Master had their own limit.
As for whether this would help Tang Wulin, that concern was entirely unnecessary.
Tang Wulin's tolerance limit was fixed. If he absorbed more spiritual power now, he would absorb a little less when he went to Heaven Dou City with Wu Zhangkong over winter break and was taken into the ultimate Spirit Ascension Platform to ascend his spirit.
That was all.
There would be no improvement.
"What a shame. We can't repeat this trick."
Jiang Xia sighed. He had only thirty percent of his spiritual power and Soul Power left now, not enough to do this again.
While they were enjoying the vast amount of spiritual power here, two figures, one large and one small, were rapidly approaching.
Xu Xiaoyu led his younger sister Xu Xiaoyan along the tracks left by the soul beasts that had just converged.
"So many soul beasts were rushing in one direction. Something unusual must be happening over there."
"Brother, won't it be dangerous for us to go there?"
Xu Xiaoyan, whom Xu Xiaoyu was pulling along, spoke somewhat timidly.
"It's fine. We're already a few steps behind, so we can observe what's happening with those soul beasts."
No sooner had he spoken than Xu Xiaoyu heard the soul beasts' wails.
It was not just one soul beast, but a large number of them wailing together, their voices subsequently fading.
It seemed they had all... died!
Shock flashed through Xu Xiaoyu's eyes.
"Who could kill so many soul beasts in such a short time?"
He was shocked, but also puzzled.
"Brother, let's not go. If they can kill so many soul beasts, we'll definitely just be serving ourselves up on a platter."
"No, this elementary Spirit Ascension Platform has a rank restriction. Three-ring Soul Masters are the strongest people allowed in," Xu Xiaoyu said. "No one could possibly kill so many soul beasts in such a short time. They must have used some special method."
His gaze flickered, conflict appearing in his eyes.
Should I risk stealing that group's Soul Power?
After thinking it over, he still led Xu Xiaoyan toward them.
At the very least, he had to take a look first. If it really would not work, they could retreat.
With his strength, he should at least be able to protect Xu Xiaoyan and retreat safely...